The Boer War
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-14354-8 (ISBN)
Denis Judd is Professor Emeritus of Imperial and Commonwealth History, London Metropolitan University, and Professor at New York University in London. His books include Empire; George VI (both published by I.B.Tauris); The Lion and the Tiger: The Rise and Fall of the British Raj; Balfour and the British Empire; Radical Joe - A Life of Joseph Chamberlain; The Victorian Empire; Palmerston; The Crimean War and Jawaharlal Nehru. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Keith Surridge is an independent scholar. He is the author of Managing the South African War 1899-1902.
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Maps
Preface
Introduction: An Irrepressible Conflict?
PART I: THE BACKGROUND TO THE WAR
British Rule, Confrontation and Compromise 1815-1886
The Descent to War 1886-1899
PART II: THE COMBATANTS
3.The British Army
4.Rallying the Empire
5.The Boers
PART III: THE CAMPAIGNS 1899-1902
6.The Opening Battles, October 1899
7.The Disasters of Black Week, December 1899: The Battles of Stormberg, Magersfontein and Colenso, and their less disastrous prelude
8.Humiliation, January and February 1900: The Battles of Spion Kop and Vaal Krantz
9.‘I thank God we have kept the flag flying’: The Besieged Towns of Ladysmith, Kimberley and Mafeking
10.The Turn of the Tide, February 1900: The Relief of Kimberley, the Battle of Paardeberg, the Relief of Ladysmith
11.Marching to Pretoria (and Johannesburg): The British Advance through the Boer Republics, the Relief of Mafeking, the Start of the Guerrilla War
12.Methods of Barbarism? December 1900 to October 1901: The Guerrilla War, Farm Burning, the Concentration Camps
13.Seeking Peace, March 1900-June 1901
14.The Final Battles, May 1901-May 1902
PART IV: THE AMBIVALENCES OF WAR
15.Big Business, Capitalism and War
16.The Last of the Gentlemen’s Wars?
17.The Pro-Boers
18.Foreigners and the War
19.The Press and the War
20.The Literature of the War
PART V: THE PEACE
21.The Talks Begin
22.Taking Stock
Peace at Last
Erscheinungsdatum | 03.10.2019 |
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Zusatzinfo | 34 bw in 16pp plates |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
Gewicht | 486 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
ISBN-10 | 1-350-14354-5 / 1350143545 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-14354-8 / 9781350143548 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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